BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11183-0788839eb86672325ea73f73935f326a@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260503T063642Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240311T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240311T133000 SUMMARY:The Comparative Literature Luncheon Series: Eugenia Zuroski DESCRIPTION:\nThis talk examines the political promise of inverting the courtship novel’s dream of the “good life” through the example of France s Burney’s 1778 novel Evelina: or\, a Young Lady’s Entrance into the Wor ld. While Evelina devotes itself to cultivating a form of self-contained personhood through a by now familiar marriage plot\, I ask whether nove listic subjects conceived along these lines nevertheless contain anythin g that might contribute to a theory of public life as more than a foil f or the rewards of privatizing ourselves and capitalizing upon our social integration. I argue that Evelina\, despite its heavy emplotment of mar riage as the only desirable end of “a young lady’s entrance into the wor ld\,” contains ideas about sex and subjectivity other than as forms of s helter from the world and its uncomfortable pressures\, ideas that may p oint the way to a different theory of shared life than the novel is usua lly credited with hosting. The aperture for this reading is the figure o f Evelina’s laughing mouth.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.e du/event/cmlit-eugenia-zuroski/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This talk exami nes the political promise of inverting the courtship novel’s dream of th e “good life” through the example of Frances Burney’s 1778 novel Eve lina: or, a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World. While Evelina dev otes itself to cultivating a form of self-contained personhood through a by now familiar marriage plot, I ask whether novelistic subjects concei ved along these lines nevertheless contain anything that might contribut e to a theory of public life as more than a foil for the rewards of priv atizing ourselves and capitalizing upon our social integration. I argue that Evelina, despite its heavy emplotment of marriage as the only desir able end of “a young lady’s entrance into the world,” contains ideas abo ut sex and subjectivity other than as forms of shelter from the world an d its uncomfortable pressures, ideas that may point the way to a differe nt theory of shared life than the novel is usually credited with hosting . The aperture for this reading is the figure of Evelina’s laughing mout h.

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